Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.

Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today.

Some people think wearing powder ages them, but try it anyway. For me it mattes my makeup and blends it well.

In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.

I forgot how it feel like to have the top of my foot hurt so bad from kicking people on the face.

Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.

I don't really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I've signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.